Using Dumb Charades to enhance unit related vocabulary

We played a game or Dumb Charades today; the difference was that the words given were not names of movies, but words related to the unit (design, weather, environment, shapes, money, government laws, culture, etc). There are basically the factors that impact the design and construction of a structure.

Contextual writing

The grade 5's were given a few picture books today and were asked to create a house in the setting of the book. They were given a choice to either write a descriptive essay or create a poem. The focus was use of adjectives and other descriptive language (simile, metaphor and personification).

 One group created their own club house; another group created a house in the 'whispering palms'. A third group described the house in an adventure story and the last group used their senses to add information to Abraham Lincoln's childhood home.

Transferring into symbols

We read the book 'The Greedy Triangle' by Marilyn Burns today and the students were asked to turn the story into symbols. This helped them understand the 'shift' between polygons and the revise the vocabulary.

Useful websites for learning English grammar

Fun English games

Grammar exercises - Grade wise and unit wise

 A variety of fun ways to enhance Enlgish language

More grammar games

PowerPoint Presentations about English grammar

More grammar games

Identifying shapes

Students were given different illustrations related to nature. They identified points, lines, angles, quadrilaterals and 3D shapes in the pictures. This was a pre-unit assessment for the unit on shapes and Quadrant sheets were used.

ant sheets were used.

Wiki project

Students of Grade 5 were grouped according to different cultures around the world. They made a wiki based on their research:
http://grade5culture.wikispaces.com/
Please feel free to comment on the wiki - We will continue to use the wiki for the rest of the unit.

Snapshots

Carousel activity

Gallery Walk

More-True-than-False

Drop-everything-and-read (DEAR) time

Math project on data analysis

Surya and Ishan begin the Grade 5 Assembly

Aly and Aviral give an introduction to the wiki

Khushi and Umar talk about African culture

Sharon and Zahir talk about Bengali culture

Safa and Aayush talk about Chinese culture

Using manipulatives to create word problems in maths

solving math problems in pairs

Novel study: Prediction

Using Think-Puzzle-Explore for analysing artefacts

Presenting artefacts to class

Making a collage